Sex Work Hasn`t Stopped During Coronavirus
(WorldNews Spain)

This article originally appeared on VICE Spain. In Spain, sex work employs an estimated 100,000 women and generates €4 billion a year. Like many other countries, Spain tolerates sex work but hasn't legalised it, leaving sex workers in a cruel legal purgatory: they can pay taxes, but aren't recognised as employees. When the country went into lockdown in March, sex work was not considered an essential service, and therefore banned. It's difficult to imagine a sector of that size just shutting down without huge government support, but after initially leaving sex workers completely in the lurch, on the 21st of April the Spanish government announced emergency measures...